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Welcome! Being an old experimentalist myself I can relate to what you have been doing.. Nowadays I am focused on Falun Dafa, exclusively. It is simply the most powerful and righteous method there is if you ask me. Raising Gong level and opening third eye on a high level is something a genuine Taoist can do very fast when he tries Dafa.

My advice is go and try the five Falun Dafa exercises and read the book Zhuan Falun. Usually all kinds of mystical and threatening diseases disappear within weeks or months of starting in FD. http://www.falundafa.org/bul/audio-video/audiovideo_video.html http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html PS: The free options are always the best. I used to have at least five different allergies before during 30 years, they are all cured now.

Hi and welcome from a Swedish Falun Dafa cultivator!

Every time I take alot of pain in Lotus meditation I will start shaking, the more pain the more shaking. I will sweat out alot of karma during these sessions, afterwards it feels great.

Welcome! On my hand I tried many things before settling down with Falun Dafa which I find to be the purest and "simplest", but hardest practice. Its base is very simple(follow Zhen-Shan-Ren in your daily life) and it has some exercises too that are very good. In reality it is very hard to achieve the Dao and eliminate all your attachments, emotions and desires, easy to say but so hard to do. I try to remember Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good and Falun Dafa is good.

You are right, everyone who achieves the Arhat fruit status or higher will be an immortal(until he drops down or decides to go down and incarnate). I practice Falun Dafa exactly for the reason that Dafa allows me to achieve Right Fruit(Arhat or higher) and get out of the Samsara loop.

I would say that without Gong OBE can be downright dangerous, a demon might take possession of your body or even kill your main primordial spirit while getting out there. When they see little you there, with that precious human body and without any means of defending yourself... I got demon obsession from Biyun Qi Gong and after starting practicing Falun Dafa the demon came after me to take my life. Had I not had the protection I have in Falun Dafa, well... The beast was creepier than creepy. So watch out, pursuit is a very dangerous attachment.

Below are some of my objective(I will tell you about some of my personal experiences later on)"external" reasons for doing self-cultivation in Falun Dafa. These reasons are only my personal opinions at my current level of enlightenment and may not be seen as some form of official information on Falun Gong. - Falun Gong or Falun Dafa(FD)is based on Zhen-Shan-Ren which means Truth-Compassion-Forbearance in English. This is the law(Fa) of the cosmos it is said in FD. FD belongs to the Buddha Fa Qi Gong school but includes Taoist concepts in its cultivation. One sees many former Taoists among the practitioners, also many martial artists. - FD is a practice of body, mind and soul. You should temper every part of yourself in the midst of living a "normal" life in everyday society. There are five exercises including one where you do meditation in double Lotus, not in trance but being aware of yourself practicing. That is also a key, to never fall into trance and let your subordinate soul cultivate while you get nothing. - As a cultivator you are supposed to align yourself with nature, follow the flow of nature and thereby following the laws of the universe, that is the only way to achieve true happiness and consummate it is said. You will need to improve your xinxing(mind, moral character, virtue, endurance, tolerance etc) and reduce your body and thought karma along the way. - FD is a free practice, no fees, no "priests", no organization, no memberships etc. Only Master Li may publish official papers in FD, thereby assuring that it will not run astray like the religions. All books are free for download. - You are responsible for your own beliefs and enlightenment in FD, at your current level of cultivation. Whatever state or enlightenment you have reached in meditation, you can always improve from that level. Therefore you will never find absolute truth. - In FD there is a Master Li Hongzhi who is righteous and has infinite compassion and boundless power. He attracted 100 million disciples in six years in China and then it expanded to more than 100 countries in a few years. Of course the CCP is terrified of FD and has banned it in China and persecuted millions of practitioners, a terrible deed for which they will face retribution. - In FD you are not made to loose anything materially like becoming a monk. Instead you just live like an everyday person while giving up all your attachments to emotions and desires. You take lightly any "losses" or "gains" in this world and by living among temptations and conficts you will get stronger and raise your level faster as you consciously loose out in various conflicts. - What you put in is what you get back in FD. That means the harder you work the higher level you will reach. It is natural and very fair. - Inborn quality matters. A virtuous person born with alot of virtue will raise his level much faster than someone with alot of karma and a history of wrongdoing. Many prophecies point to the east during the end times: Emmanuel Swedenborg pointed right to the doctrines of FD and said Master Li would arrive from China as the incarnation of the Lord in flesh and his doctrines would become the "New Church" which would take over all religions after judgment day has passed. He mentioned that the Chinese language is a divine language and that is a reason for FD coming out of China in Chinese. He also predicted the "Dragon" would start persecuting FD cultivators out of jealousy. Dragon is a synonym of the CCP. Swedenborg specifically wanted to warn christian people of the modern church and its doctrines deviating from Jesus original doctrines. He pointed to FD and utged people to "lok for it in China". Nostradamus said evil would start persecute good in 1999 july. 20th of July the CCP started persecuting 100 million cultivators in China. Edgar Cayce said that the cradle of true christianity would be in China... In fact, Swedenborg also pointed to the body and mind cultivation that Jesus performed in his days. Books for anyone to read(Zhuan Falun is the main book for true cultivation): Download free Falun Dafa Falun Gong books and articles: http://www.falundafa.../eng/books.html News and other information here: http://www.Clearwisdom.net All feedback welcome! I can add that I was born and raised a protestant and then got into Qi Gong and Taoism. I find modern religion corrupted, no matter which religion we talk about. Too much time has passed since the founders lived and the clergy has corrupted the true teachings with personal, political and money agendas over the millenia. This phenomenon was predicted by all the founders of orthodox religions too.

I have no time to answer too many specific questions, many answers about FD cultivation are found at www.clearwisdom.net or in the book Zhuan Falun. PS: I recommend this marvelous show to everyone(it has been produced by Master Li to enhance traditional Chinese culture): http://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/

Welcome! Try reading the book Zhuan Falun and then the five exercises of Falun Dafa. It is all free of charge and will give tremendous health benefits in my opinion: http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html Good luck!

Welcome! I recommend that you read the book Zhuan Falun and then try the five exercises of Falun Dafa, this is all free and has benefited me tremendously. http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html

My friend, you say many things here and my time is limited. I can not change your heart. NY Times and many other official media outlets has defined FD as NOT being a cult but you are entitled to your own opinion of course. When a cultivator enters other dimensions many things can happen, security may be an issue and Master Li has enormous power. That is why it might be a good idea to ask him for help in an emergency, after all one does not want to be killed. If you have a problem with having a teacher there is not much I can say. What Master Li has given all practitioners(scriptures, exercises, the Falun etc etc) is simply beyond anything out there. About "teachers" telling you what to do at the practice site, that sounds very strange since there are no "teachers" allowed in FD, except Master. You must have misunderstood that part. There are instructors at sites and they can answer questions at their respective levels of enlightenment. There are 100 million practitioners, some instructors are bound to do mistakes. The six million people you imagine Master Li organized was like 10 000 people... About the scriptures, they encompass all levels, and Master´s lectures sometimes is very hard to understand. If one has seen nothing in other dimensions, not read the prophecies or any Buddhism etc, some facts might be hard to accept but each one has his own level and as one raises his level it will all become clear in due time. Yesterday I had a goat to take care of while sending righteous thoughts.... Who can accept that without experiencing it?... No matter what one thinks about FD, in due time everyone on this earth will know truth about FD. It is a question of how early one gets to know it. The earlier the better in my opinion.

Feel free to criticize Dafa. I just tell you to first read the book Zhuan Falun and try the exercises once so you understand what Dafa is all about. It is better to first test drive a space shuttle before complaining about the shuttle being wrong built. The CCP has a global super rich organization that is extremely anti-Dafa. Is it not true the CCP spreads alot of misinformation about Dafa? Do not most people read this news, accept it as truth and never double-check it again? This is how the world is run. Tell me, where is the organization in "Dafa"? How does it work? Dafa work is all about volunteering. Nobody is allowed to charge a fee at a practice site. All books are free of charge. There is a newspaper, a web site(Minghui/Clearwisdom) and a TV channel(NDTV) run by Dafa volunteers(TV and newspaper are run as a company I believe) but it is not "Dafa organization" is it? The Epoch Times have a bit different news than most other news channels(more positive news at Epoch Times) but you can not say Epoch times equals "Dafa" since their news is news for any type of people, not just Dafa people. NDTV, I can not say exactly what they do. Clearwisdom is focused on Dafa and is for cultivators. So there are many Dafa projects doing different stuff and each project has an organization with no formal connection to the other projects. Dafa has no organization with any kind of pyramid or money. Everything is loosely organized and the 1000s of practice sites across the world are all run by volunteers doing it out of free will, taking the rent for the site costs by themselves. I would say maybe 90% of all Dafa practitioners never met Master Li. It is enough to cultivate well and do the three things well. You will get what you deserve. There have been different phases in FD like you mention, each phase has reached a higher level. This is a process, very meticulously planned. In my previous message I explained why it may look like politics(oppose the persecution does not seem political to me but many people equal it to opposing the CCP) to everyday people. But when one looks from a slightly higher perspective one finds it a ridiculous statement. FD is about cultivation and now saving sentient beings during this phase.

Hi! Many questions, I can only answer you at my current enlightenment level. Therefore you may not take any of my answers as any kind of "truth". After 1999-07-20 the situation for FD cultivators changed completely. Before that it was basically a system of self-cultivation. After the persecution FD became a system of self-cultivation AND clarifying the truth&sending righteous thoughts&saving sentient beings during this period of time, later it will go back to self-cultivation only. All the cultivators had to adjust to the situation and oppose the persecution, although noone acknowledges it or the old forces whatsoever. The historic reasons have been prophesiced throughout the ages and was also commented on by Master Li: http://english.falundafamuseum.org/b5/00/06/28/316.html Note the date 1999-07-20, twenty years will the persecution last, followed by the infamous seven years of tribulations(all this is prophesiced according to Nostradamus and the bible etc) after the "World-Fa rectification" started. I believe to oppose the persecution is very important and also to help the other practitioners get out of jail. Remember that if you are a member of the CCP in China you silently support the persecution and wil pay the consequences at the end of the Fa-rectification period when the World-Fa rectification starts. Since every Chinese as a kid takes an oath to the CCP it is very important to nullify that arrangement and help all people quit the CCP in time. As I understand it all Dafa practitioners have taken previous vows to support Master during these predestined tribulations and save as many sentient beings as possible. This process was described well by Swedenborg in his many books. He also said the Dafa disciples will form a new angelic heaven and the people you save from destruction will be able to cultivate to your kingdom in the future. That means if you only do self-cultivation and do not help other people your kingdom will be rather dull(no people there)... Each sentient being that you can save is therefore extremely valuable. Your cultivation level is not dependent on doing the "three things"(of course, the more virtue you build the easier it is to increase your Gong level I believe) undertaking, as I understand it. The Fa-rectification has nothing to do with politics of course, it is something completely different, but everyday people easily interprets it as being politics, since the CCP opposes it. In fact this period is about saving sentient beings and helping practitioners get out of jail to be able to do what they should do during this Fa-rectification period. About the CIA etc that is typical CCP propaganda and is nonsense. In fact "Dafa projects" have no lack of money and the reason is simple; if you are a genuine cultivator you will know what your future looks like and some of the 100 million practitioners are well-off and they will spend their private money on helping Dafa projects and help to save more sentient beings and build mighty virtue in the process of helping. This has nothing to do with CIA or politics, it has everything to do with the power of Dafa and your vows given a long time ago. Master Li planned these events for ages, now they are all unfolding and if someone has the opportunity to become a Fa-rectification disciple, well, that is simply great news for that person. Each person who tries the Dafa exercises and reads the books(Zhuan Falun is the important book) will know what I mean. Especially in this forum where there are many people with very good inborn quality and little karma, you will reach levels unimaginable.. I can tell everyone, try Dafa out without any notions and you will know what to do later after experiencing its power. The power of Dafa is beyond anything else out there, as is evidenced by its extremely rapid spread across the world. Master Li seems very much the same person to me now as before, he just focuses on saving as many sentient beings as possible. However big the bad noise is, however many CCP infiltrators/spies etc there are slanderring Dafa, truth remains the same. Try Dafa out and the rest will come naturally.

About the exercises, I have an interesting story from last week. In my office I ran a demo of the FD exercises and a girl came up and started doing the standing exercises. She had never done anything like Qi Gong or similar. All of a sudden she felt the Falun wheel turning during exercise 2 and was really caught off guard. After finishing she had to sit down and drink water and take it easy. She said: "Nobody can imagine what FD is like, the power and the feeling, it is just amazing". The following workday she came up and asked me when we could hold the next session.... If one can feel the Falun the first time one practices I believe one has a very good predestination for this.

If you practiced FD for two years genuinely how can you call Master Li such words? From day one of your practice you will study his scriptures, and in a very short time one will understand who he is and support him forever. Then there are bound to be very few people who are predestined to create trouble for FD. Those people usually are identified as troublemakers from the outset since nobody can fake genuine cultivation, it is simply too hard for anyone to fake anything like genuine cultivation. And FD being a cult is a ridiculous statement since there is no money, no organization, no membership, no leaders, no worshipping etc. All that is CCP propaganda that everyday people buy into since they don´t doublecheck information. Nobody can publish the kind of information that Master Li has done. Never in the history of mankind has such information been made available to people. I remember a professor of Mathematical Statistics from NY who said no ordinary man would be able to disclose such secrets without being punished by higher powers. Who can talk about Jesus, Shakyamuni, Lao Zi and Yahweh just like that, revealing details about their respective enlightenment levels and cultivation paths?.... Only one person can do such a thing. As has been prophecised by many prophets throughut the ages.

Welcome! I cultivate in Falun Dafa and hope to be able to share some of my experiences with you.

I would advice you to try the 5 sets of Falun Dafa exercises and especially the standing stance might be a good idea(30 minutes) to pull up the karma before you sit down in Lotus. Your hip karma surely can be moved to another place before sitting down. Typically after I sleep during a night alot of karma has come up from the legs to the upper body, giving bad morning breath, burps etc.

Well, I guess each translation has its own twist. Try reading all three in succession and then choose which one you prefer to work with. I tried the US version for a while and then switched to the Swedish version which I find better. The big issue in Dafa cultivation is to study the Fa diligently. Each time you will understand the book a little better. That is the only way to cultivate up fast. About Master Li performing mudras they are his way of communicating with the cultivators or the knowing side of cultivators. Nobody except Master is allowed to show them or practice them. At the extremely high levels one will know about various Mudras I believe. But that is not my level and I know nothing about them except what is said in Zhuan Falun. One should only do the five exercises and that is it.

Indeed you are going to an extreme in your reasoning. Your words would mean all people are born the same. They are not. There are men, women, stiff, flexible, healthy and handicapped people. Just to mention a few differences between people. To mention levels there are cells, molecules, atoms, electrons, quarks, neutrinos etc etc. Each particle size level has a dimension, science can not see any single dimension below this one, since it only sees dots and not planes in the microscopic world. Master Li has expained that the more microscopic you can see with your third eye, the higher your level is, only the human being has the potential to develop these abilities by becoming a good person and cultivating diligently in the Fa. I have a son with very good inborn quality, when he was five years old, one day he took up his bedsheet and went inside of it. There were trees and bushes inside he told me. Another time he went into a grass straw. Just to make an example of a certain level. Li Hongzhi has mentioned Sakyamuni, Jesus and Lao Zi all reached the Tataghata level during their lifetimes. They had very high inborn quality and could raise their Gong levels very fast. He also mentioned there are few Dafa cultivators who can reach that level now, and he empasized few... Master Li has also said that the Fa-rectification taking place has two phases(Fa-rectification period and World Fa rectification stage when everyone will know what is happening). The earlier phase the harder to obtain the Fa. At this moment it is very hard to obtain the Fa since the time left in phase one is very short so only those with good or maybe even very good inborn quality can cultivate up in time. I find it extremely interesting when Master Li explained that Sakyamunis disciples were among the first ones to obtain the Fa during the 90s. As a form of reward for their earlier efforts. Everyone will get a fair treatment, always.

Everyday people have a bad side(karmic part as opposed to the virtue part). That bad side knows there is a big event coming their way soon and that bad part knows it is going to be eradicated. It does not take a great mind to figure out that the world can not continue in this way much longer and the earth will be reshaped completely, and mankind can do nothing about it whatysoever, only a God can do it. My son asked me when he was like 2-3 years old, "What am I supposed to do here before I die daddy?"... At the time I had no good answer, which I certainly have now... The right way and the right man has arrived here and everyone will know about it soon enough. If one welcomes the coming change one has a big chance to make it to the next stage, if one opposes it, well... It is said that if someone says "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good"; "Falun Dafa is good" and he means it, that person will make it to the next stage. Virtue will come to be extremely precious in the future I believe. Suffering will gain in popularity too I expect.

I agree with you mostly on the first part. You need to get your Gong level up as high as possible. Since time is limited you have no Gong to waste on healing everyday people who will create new karma anyway since their attachments have not been eliminated. 1. The benchmarks are not "official" so to speak, nobody is permitted to know their Gong level before they reach enlightenment and unlocking gong(Kaigong). You will mostly know when you have Gong I believe(based on my personal experience and other practitioners experiences, maybe there are exceptions), when that type of energy comes you will feel it. If your third eye is open or closed it will give you alot of differences in your cultivation. If third eye is open your cultivation speed is half of the speed compared to having third eye closed(it is more painful to cultivate with third eye closed and hence you raise your Gong level faster). To say when one is allowed to heal other people´s diseases I guess one should not focus on it at all, just cultivate up your Gong level and you will notice that everyday people like to stay near to you(and in your house...) and there is no need for intentional healing. If you do intentional healing on many everyday people you will destroy Dafa and your own Gong level. To heal a cultivator should be another story. One has wisdom when one reaches those heights, I can not talk about that wisdom since I do not have it. 2. If you mean Qi energy it is said it can absolutely not heal anyone or anything. Only Gong can do it. People who actually can heal without being cultivators have Futi and are possessed by an animal or demon. They get Gong(energy) from the animal and he takes your essences from you in return, it is a trade. That is a terrible fate for the healer. The above is just my personal reflections at my current level. There are many higher truths not reflected in my answer, only Zhuan Falun can give you truth at your current level.

30 minutes per day, every day, and your right(I assume you are a female) leg will drop down towards the floor, finally, you will be able to do the double Lotus. I tell you about a newcomer to Falun Dafa. He could sit 38 minutes in double lotus at the beginning and after a month or so he passed the hour mark... That is a very good inborn quality indeed. He told me he feels like he can start to fly away from his body after sitting in double Lotus for a long time, all body parts. Double Lotus will transform your body in a magical way, it is about the balance I guess.